As many of you know, up until July of this year WERU had been broadcasting with the original FM transmitter installed when the station first went on the air in 1988. Our transmitter was very old by industry standards and was in a downward spiral of breakdowns and nearly constant maintenance taking unannounced days off more frequently, which, as you might imagine, made it hard to operate the radio station and to fulfill our mission of community service. Thanks to the generosity of more than 200 people who gave to the New Transmitter Campaign, as well as the Maine Association of Broadcasters Foundation and the Bangor Savings Bank Foundation for their grants, WERU is once again operating at full power with a brand new radio transmitter. The process for installing the new, state-of-the-art, and solid-state transmitter took a good deal of work. In June we modified the building that houses the transmitter at the base of the 200-foot communications tower on Blue Hill Mountain. (We rent space on the tower, which also holds cell phone, wireless Internet and other communications antennas.) The small structure, about the size of a shed for storing a riding lawnmower, had to be enlarged so that both the new and old transmitters, each of which fits in a rack about the size of a large refrigerator, could sit side by side. We are keeping the old transmitter as a back up for the new one, and also to save ourselves the huge job of getting it down the hill. We also replaced the building’s 25-year old roof. Finally, during the last week of July, using an off-road vehicle we transported the new transmitter components up Blue Hill Mountain, about a twenty-minute ride one way. Fortunately, the transmitter came in several parts, the heaviest of which weighs only 200 pounds, unlike the 500-pound generator we installed a couple of years earlier. It took all day to bring the equipment up to the building. It then took three full days for the engineer from the transmitter company and our Chief Engineer, Bruce Clark, to assemble all the parts and run an exhaustive battery of tests before turning on the new transmitter for the public to hear. We were able to stay on the air for much of the installation period because we continued to use the old transmitter while the work was being done. Once the new transmitter was broadcasting we began hearing from listeners that the sound was “richer” and “fuller.” The signal doesn’t go any farther than before, as our signal coverage pattern authorized by the FCC has not changed. We just plain sound better. And perhaps more importantly, we are dramatically less susceptible to frequent breakdowns and extra maintenance, which both saves money and provides listeners with more consistent service. We are also saving 10% on our electricity bill with the new transmitter. Once again, the Board, staff and volunteers of WERU thank everyone who contributed to our New Transmitter Campaign! And, we thank everyone who supports the station through his or her membership contributions to the station. Whether you are a new member or you’ve been giving for twenty-plus years, you keep us going strong! (See pages 3 and 6 for more on the new transmitter and improving reception.) On Monday nights, from 8 to 10 pm on WERU FM, Paula Greatorex and her Ol’ Buddy have been soothing souls over the airwaves with Blues the Healer since September 13, 1992. The show kicks off every Monday night with John Lee Hooker’s classic tune by the same name. In this exclusive interview with Paula, we pull back the curtain and unveil the mastermind of this unique WERU blues show that has been running the past 20 years. In the beginning . . . “I moved home to Maine in 1989. My brother, Byron, had a jazz show called Straight, No Chaser that aired on Sunday afternoons. I hung out at the henhouse (the old WERU studio in Blue Hill) with Byron a few times and got interested. I listened all the time, met a few volunteers and decided to take the training. There were no other traditional blues shows airing during that time so I chose that genre. The only thing I knew about the blues was that I liked the sound.” In Paula’s program proposal she said she wanted to “connect to life’s joys and sorrows with blues lyrics.” She practiced on Southern Wind with Terry Mason. Then, her brother moved out of the area, so she jumped in with Blues the Healer on Sept 13, 1992. It was on a Sunday afternoon and, of all times, it was during a pledge drive. David Piszcz was her co-host. “I was nervous, clumsy and scared and didn’t know much about the blues – David Piszcz saved the show with his knowledge and wit. I was smitten with the music and thought I could pull it off.” “John Blaisdell (aka, My Ol’ Buddy) moved to Isle au Haut from the Boston area in the late ’70’s. John has rich and varied taste in music, but living on Isle au Haut, he felt like he was living in a radio wasteland with a few commercial stations. Then, WERU hit the airwaves in 1988. One day, while he was working outside his cabin listening to Blues the Healer, John decided to call the station and make a music request. He later wrote a letter asking for sources of information NON-PROFIT ORG. PRSRT STD U.S. POSTAGE PAID Permit #82 Ellsworth, ME 1186 Acadia Highway East Orland, ME 04431 (207) 469-6600 http://weru.org/ [email protected] CONTINUED page six WERU Community Radio News & Program Guide - Autumn 2012 - FREE! 89.9 FM Midcoast, Downeast & Central Maine - 99.9 FM Greater Bangor - Webcasting: http://weru.org WERU LIVE RADIO AUCTION DEC. 1ST! By Matt Murphy, WERU General Manager W E R U SALT AIR Tune in on Saturday, December 1, 2012, from 8 am until Noon and bid on a wide range of items donated by members of the WERU community. Most items are gift certificates for restaurants, inns, classes, books, galleries, garden supplies and many other services and products. A few items can be viewed at our website www.weru.org. Bidding on each item will begin at half its value. Support your favorite community radio station, secure great holiday gifts, and have fun! We will auction items off in groups of three or four. Our auctioneers will describe each group and then play music while the bids come in. You can call 469-6600 or 1-800-643- 6273 and give your name, phone number and bid to one of our phone answerers. The auctioneers will update listeners as the bids come in. Each grouping will be available for bids for approximately five minutes. Big ticket items can be bid on at any time during the auction and will be closed out one by one during the last hour. If you are the highest bidder you will receive a call from another volunteer who will ask if you are paying by check or credit card and get your mailing address. Please check our website for updates at www.weru.org. We will be posting the order in which items will be offered for bids on the website a few days before the auction. WERU ON FULL POWER! AUCTION CATALOG pages 4-5 By Paula Greatorex, Host of Blues the Healer, and Chris Stark, WERU Volunteer Coordinator YEP! BLUES IS THE HEALER Paula Greatorex and John Blaisdell with Jimmie Vaughn Jonathan Owen of Harris, Inc. (left) and WERU Chief Engineer Bruce Clark (right) installing the new transmitter. By Mary Kellett, WERU Auction Day Coordinator
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As many of you know, up until July of this year WERU had been broadcasting with the original FM transmitter installed when the station first went on the air in 1988. Our transmitter was very old by industry standards and was in a downward spiral of breakdowns and nearly constant maintenance taking unannounced days off more frequently, which, as you might imagine, made it hard to operate the radio station and to fulfill our mission of community service. Thanks to the generosity of more than 200 people who gave to the New Transmitter Campaign, as well as the Maine Association of Broadcasters Foundation and the Bangor Savings Bank Foundation for their grants, WERU is once again operating at full power with a brand new radio transmitter.
The process for installing the new, state-of-the-art, and solid-state transmitter took a good deal of work. In June we modified the building that houses the transmitter at the base of the 200-foot communications tower on Blue Hill Mountain. (We rent space on the tower, which also holds cell phone, wireless Internet and other communications antennas.) The small structure, about the size of a shed for storing a riding lawnmower, had to be enlarged so that both the new and old transmitters, each of which fits in a rack about the size of a large refrigerator, could sit side by side. We are keeping the old transmitter as a back up for the new one, and also to save ourselves the huge job of getting it down the hill. We also replaced the building’s 25-year old roof.
Finally, during the last week of July, using an off-road vehicle
we transported the new transmitter components up Blue Hill Mountain, about a twenty-minute ride one way. Fortunately, the transmitter came in several parts, the heaviest of which weighs only 200 pounds, unlike the 500-pound generator we installed a couple of years earlier. It took all day to bring the equipment up to the building.
It then took three full days for the engineer from the transmitter company and our Chief Engineer, Bruce Clark, to assemble all the parts and run an exhaustive battery of tests before turning on the new transmitter for the public to hear. We were able to stay on the air for much of the installation period because we continued to use the old transmitter while the work was being done.
Once the new transmitter was broadcasting we began hearing from listeners that the sound was “richer” and “fuller.” The signal doesn’t go any farther than before, as our signal coverage pattern authorized by the FCC has not changed. We just plain sound better. And perhaps more importantly, we are dramatically less susceptible to frequent breakdowns and extra maintenance, which both saves money and provides listeners with more consistent service. We are also saving 10% on our electricity bill with the new transmitter.
Once again, the Board, staff and volunteers of WERU thank everyone who contributed to our New Transmitter Campaign! And, we thank everyone who supports the station through his or her membership contributions to the station. Whether you are a new member or you’ve been giving for twenty-plus years, you keep us going strong! (See pages 3 and 6 for more on the new transmitter and improving reception.)
On Monday nights, from 8 to 10 pm on WERU FM, Paula Greatorex and her Ol’ Buddy have been soothing souls over the airwaves with Blues the Healer since September 13, 1992. The show kicks off every Monday night with John Lee Hooker’s classic tune by the same name. In this exclusive interview with Paula, we pull back the curtain and unveil the mastermind of this unique WERU blues show that has been running the past 20 years.
In the beginning . . .“I moved home to Maine in 1989. My brother, Byron,
had a jazz show called Straight, No Chaser that aired on Sunday afternoons. I hung out at the henhouse (the old WERU studio in Blue Hill) with Byron a few times and got interested. I listened all the time, met a few volunteers and decided to take the training. There were no other traditional blues shows airing during that time so I chose that genre. The only thing I knew about the blues was that I liked the sound.”
In Paula’s program proposal she said she wanted to
“connect to life’s joys and sorrows with blues lyrics.” She practiced on Southern Wind with Terry Mason. Then, her brother moved out of the area, so she jumped in with Blues the Healer on Sept 13, 1992. It was on a Sunday afternoon and, of all times, it was during a pledge drive. David Piszcz was her co-host.
“I was nervous, clumsy and scared and didn’t know much about the blues – David Piszcz saved the show with his knowledge and wit. I was smitten with the music and thought I could pull it off.”
“John Blaisdell (aka, My Ol’ Buddy) moved to Isle au Haut from the Boston area in the late ’70’s. John has rich and varied taste in music, but living on Isle au Haut, he felt like he was living in a radio wasteland with a few commercial stations. Then, WERU hit the airwaves in 1988. One day, while he was working outside his cabin listening to Blues the Healer, John decided to call the station and make a music request. He later wrote a letter asking for sources of information
NON-PROFIT ORG.PRSRT STD
U.S. POSTAGEPAID
Permit #82Ellsworth, ME
1186 Acadia HighwayEast Orland, ME 04431(207) 469-6600http://weru.org/[email protected]
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WERU Community Radio News & Program Guide - Autumn 2012 - FREE!89.9 FM Midcoast, Downeast & Central Maine - 99.9 FM Greater Bangor - Webcasting: http://weru.org
WERU LIVE RADIO AUCTIONDEC. 1ST!
By Matt Murphy, WERU General Manager
W ER U SALT AIR
Tune in on Saturday, December 1, 2012, from 8 am until Noon and bid on a wide range of items donated by members of the WERU community. Most items are gift certificates for restaurants, inns, classes, books, galleries, garden supplies and many other services and products. A few items can be viewed at our website www.weru.org.
Bidding on each item will begin at half its value. Support your favorite community radio station, secure great holiday gifts, and have fun!
We will auction items off in groups of three or four. Our
auctioneers will describe each group and then play music while the bids come in. You can call 469-6600 or 1-800-643-6273 and give your name, phone number and bid to one of our phone answerers. The auctioneers will update listeners as the bids come in. Each grouping will be available for bids for approximately five minutes. Big ticket items can be bid on at any time during the auction and will be closed out one by one during the last hour.
If you are the highest bidder you will receive a call from another volunteer who will ask if you are paying by check or credit card and get your mailing address. Please check our website for updates at www.weru.org. We will be posting the order in which items will be offered for bids on the website a few days before the auction.
WERU ON FULL POWER!
AUCTION CATALOG pages 4-5
By Paula Greatorex, Host of Blues the Healer, and Chris Stark, WERU Volunteer Coordinator
YEP! BLUES IS ThE hEALER
Paula Greatorex and John Blaisdell with Jimmie Vaughn
Jonathan Owen of Harris, Inc. (left) and WERU Chief Engineer Bruce Clark (right) installing the new transmitter.
By Mary Kellett, WERU Auction Day Coordinator
WERU’S MISSION
BOARD OF DIRECTORSWERU-FM is licensed to Salt Pond Community Broadcasting, a non-profit corporation actively run by an all-volunteer Board of Directors from the community that WERU-FM serves. Board meetings are open to the public. The current board members are:
Meg FournierStarr Gilmartin
John Greenman (Secretary)Mary Kellett
Bill LippincottMatt Murphy (Ex Officio & Gen. Mgr.)
Richard Paget Greg Rossel (President)
Kathleen RybarzLynn Soucy (Treasurer)
Sara TrunzoJon Van Amringe
John Zavodny (Vice President)
JacksonTrentonOld Town BrooklinHampdenPenobscotStoningtonTroyLamoineDedhamUnityLamoineBelfast
STATION OPERATIONS STAFFTom Beal
Amy BrowneBruce Clark
Denis HowardJoel Mann
Willie MarquartCaren Mulford
Matt MurphyAl Scott
Chris Stark
IT ContractorNews & Public Affairs ManagerChief Broadcast EngineerMusic & Underwriting Director Program & Operations ManagerFinance ManagerDevelopment ManagerGeneral ManagerIT ContractorOffice & Volunteer Coordinator
Marianne Adamenas, Kevin Ames, Paul Anderson, Marilyn Appleton, Dan Avener, Ty Babb, Jim Bahoosh, Dusty Bailey, Karen Balas-Cote, Don Bamman, Jim Baranski, Matt Baya, Tom Beal, Ron Beard, Paul Behnken, Andree Bella,
Charlie Bickford, Sarah Bicknell, Kristie Billings, John Blaisdell, Mark Boshko, Alfred Bourgoin, Mary Brennan, Anne Bryant, Andy Buckley, Kathie Burnett, Richard Buxton, Jim Campbell, Laura Campbell, Scot Cannon, Kevin Carman, Kenn Chandler, Sara Elena Chiri, Sherry Churchill, Joan Clemons, Maynard Clemons, Carolyn Coe, Ian Collins, Lori Connor, Paul Conte, Diana Cookson, Joe-Ann Corwin, Lynn Cottrell, Adam Cram, Jed Curtis, Larry Dansinger, Darwin Davidson, Mavis Davis, Meredith DeFrancesco, Dan DeLuca, Lee Dennett, Martha Dickinson, Susan Dickson-Smith, Colleen Diskin, Martina Dittmar, Karen Doherty, Michael Donahue, Anu Dudley, Charlie Dufour, Mark Dyer, Brian Dyer-Stewart, Pam Dyer-Stewart, Jeanne Ellis, Jeff Ellis, Melisenda Ellis, Mark Elwin, RW Estela, Joan Federman, Rhonda Feiman, Asha Fenn, Jim Fisher, Joe Fisher, Brian Flaherty, Michelle Flaherty, Bert Flower, Markus Ford, Meg Fournier, Chrissy Fowler, George Fowler, Pat Fowler, Maureen Foye, Jim Freeman, Linda Freimuth, Sean Gambrel, Stacy Gambrel, Martha Garfield, Linda Garson Smith, Bea Gates, Matt Gerald, Jane Gerlach, Starr Gilmartin, Karen Gleeson, Charlotte Goddu, Byron Greatorex, Paula Greatorex, John Greenman, Ralph Grimes, Tim Hagney, Petra Hall, Jared Hansen, Neal Harkness, Kate Harris, Nancy Hathaway, Daniel Hays, Michael Heatley, Mary Hildebrand, John Hillman-Waters, Sharon Hillman-Waters, Rich Hilsinger, Kevin Holmes, Fritz Homans, Chris Huh, John Hunt, Tris Hurley, Laura Hyer, Cathy Jacobs, Lynn Jacobson, Willie Jenner, Carlton Johnson, Patricia Johnson, Magnus Johnstone, Mike Joyce, Lonya Julin, Wendy Kearney, Majo Keleshian, Mary Kellett, Valentine King, Howie Kittelson, Eric Klausmeyer, Luz Kogson, Adam Lacher, Margaret Laing, John Langhans, Max Langstaff, Meaghan LaSala, Joe Le Vigne, Russell Libby, Bill Lippincott, Rosa Livonius, Louise Lopez, Donna Loring, Ann Luther, Ed Lyon, Jake Maier, David Manski, Kathleen March, Chuck Markowitz, Andrew Marshall, Carol Mathiesen, Marge May, Rob McCall, Jeff McCarter, Maggi McCaw, Sue McClatchy, Barbara McClure, Holly McFaul, Maggie McFaul, Darrel McKeen, John McVeigh, Deb Melnikas, Robin Mendenhall, Brook Minner, Jim Mitchell, Quinn Mitchell, Jonathan Mohr, Cheryl Morin, Arthur Morison, Terry Morley, Doc Morrill, Claire Mortimer, Peter Neill, Karen Nelson, Peggy Niesen, Phil Norris, Ellie O’Leary, Sara O’Malley, Nicole Ouellette, Maggie Overton, Richard Paget, Ellen Paige, Mike Paige, Corey Paradise, Niles Parker, Ingrid Peterson, Jay Peterson, Susan Pierce, Breanna Pinkham Bebb, Charlie Pizzarello, Jane Ploughman, Ric Pomilia, Joe Porada, Kristy Pottle, Ed Prall, Chris Ramsay, Nancy Randall, Joel Raymond, Cathy Rees, Lawrence Reichard, Arthur Richardson, Cheryl Richardson, Gavin Rogers, Phil Rogers, Anne Romans, Mitch Rosenthal, Greg Rossel, Norma Rossel, Patrick Ruyle, Bill Ryan, Marilyn Ryan, Steve Ryan, Kathleen Rybarz, Sharon Sampson, Malcolm Sanders, Colin Sarsfield, June Sendrowski, Paul Sheridan, John Shirrefs, Elaine Shute, Richard Shute, Bob Sikkel, Valerie Smith, Sharon Smythe, Lynn Soucy, Steve Soucy, Rodney Sparkowich, Tracy Spencer, Alan Sprague, Sam Spruce, Tom Spruce, Jeri Spurling, Larry Stahlberg, Ron Staples, Francine Stark, Wes Sterrs, Sherry Streeter, Kelsey Sullivan, Cynthia Swan, Paul Swanson, Ryan Swanson, Bill Thomas, Peri Tobin, Sara Trunzo, Connie Tuller, Jon Van Amringe, Amy Van Singel, John Vincent, Connie Wagner, Parker Waite, Cordelia Walsh, Susan Walsh, Linda Washburn, Richard Washburn, Allison Watters, Sam West, Dan Wheatley, Melissa White-Pillsbury, Holbrook Williams, Mariah Williams, John Wilson, Lee Witting, Cheryl Wixson, John Zavodny, Pete Zuck
ACTIVE VOLUNTEERS:
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COMMUNITY ADVISORY BOARDThe CAB advises the Board of Directors on how well the the station serves the mission of WERU-FM. CAB meetings are open to the public. The current CAB members are:
Barbara Arter, Steuben, Don Bamman, Lamoine, Kathie Burnett, Blue Hill, Gina Bushong, Orland, Sherry Churchill, Ellsworth, Ian Collins, Liberty, Lee Dennett, Penobscot, Martha Dickinson, Ellsworth, Marty Duncan, Blue Hill, David Foley, Northport, Bobbie Goodell, South Thomaston, Michael Grillo, Penobscot, Mark Howe, Columbia, Chris Huh, Ellsworth, Suzanne Kelly, Bangor, Jo Pendleton, Belfast, Skip Pendleton, Belfast, Bob Salesi, Penobscot, Paul Sampson, Warren, Craig Schoppe, Ellsworth, Wendy Schweikert, Blue Hill, Paul Sheridan, Northport, Mariah Williams, Liberty, Mark Worth, Castine
Salt Air is published by the staff and volunteers of WERU, and is printed with soy-based ink at the Ellsworth American. Copies of Salt Air are mailed directly to all current members and distributed throughout WERU’s listening area by volunteers and staff. This issue and other back issues are available to download at http://weru.org/
WERU provides a community-based non-commercial radio service; WERU broadcasts programs designed to serve the needs of those not fully served by other broadcast media in the areas covered by the WERU signal; WERU is a “voice of many voices” offering a wide variety of people an opportunity to share their experiences, concerns, perspectives and information with their neighbors over the airwaves and Internet.
WERU-FM broadcasts 24 hours a day from the top of Blue Hill Mountain in the town of Blue Hill at 89.9 FM and 99.9 FM to greater Bangor and is webcasting at http://weru.org/. WERU is a member of Maine Association of Broadcasters, Maine Association of Nonprofits, National Federation of Community Broadcasters, and the Grassroots Radio Coalition.
WERU-FM PO Box 170
East Orland, ME 04431
Office: (207) 469-6600 Studio: (207) 469-0500
Fax: (207) 469-8961
E-mail: [email protected] Webcasting:
http://weru.org/
Addison: Froese Title Research Appleton: Perennial Favorites Nursery & Greenhouse. Bangor: Bangor Pool Table, C. Manlove Masonry, Epic Sports, Bangor Outfitters, Inc., Herbal Tea & Tobacco, House Revivers, Katahdin Pediatric Dentistry,
Maine Notary Net, Penelope Shar MD LLC, Pro Libris Book Shop, Robert Diamante, INC. Sub 5 Track Club. Bar Harbor: A&B Naturals, Acadia Fireplaces, Fair Trade Winds, Five Element Massage, Friends of Acadia, Holder & Grover PA, Morning Glory Bakery, Peacock Company Builders, Peter Rappaport Builders, Reel Pizza Cinerama, Inc., Rupununi/Havana, Sassafrass Catering, Transformation Massage Therapy. Bass Harbor: Flaming Fish Performance Models. Belfast: Acupuncture Clinic of Rhonda Feiman, Belfast Bicycles, Belfast Co-op, Belfast Dance Studio, Belfast Driver Ed LLC, Chrissy Fowler’s North Twin Education Programs, Coast To Island Sailing Charters, Darby’s Restaurant, Fiddler’s Green Farm, Galerie Dufour, Mainely Pottery, Metaphor Bronze Tileworks, Mid Coast Dental Arts, Penobscot Bay Dentistry, Quantum Insulators LLC, William Armstrong Sports and Orthopedic Massage. Blue Hill: The Activity Shop, Blue Hill Co-op, Bruce D. Warring, Master Stone Mason, Center for Studying Mindfulness, Jean Olivett Design, Maine Weather, Kingdom Bikes, Lowry Environmental Engineering, Inc., MacRevival, Norumbega Wedding Cakes, Paradise Tattoo, Peninsula Metamorphic Arts & Learning, Sara Sara’s Women’s Clothing, Sisters Salsa, Wessel Electric / American Sun Electric, Black Dinah Chocolatiers. Bremen:Lind Building & Renovating. Brewer: Allen / Freeman / McDonnell Agency, The Carter Building, Down East Sheet Metal, Robert F. Anderson, DPM MD PA. Brooklin: Ann Brayton Boat Cushions & Canvas, Bear Ridge Corporation, Betsy’s Sunflower, Inc., Brooklin Inn, Center Harbor Sails, Cold Spring Design & Woodworking, Creature Quarters: Guest House and Dog Camp, Handmade Paper, Princell Woodworks. Brooks: Baldwin Apple Ladders. Bucksport: Crosby’s Drive-In, Modular Media, Sundial Framing & Photography. Camden: Apache Boatworks, Birchwood Motel, Bob Spencer Builders and Properties, Cedar Crest Inn, Country Inn at Camden/Rockport, Grand Banks Events & Entertainment, Natural Slipcovers, Red Lion Carpentry & More, Timberhead Music, TREEKEEPERS LLC - Johnson’s Arboriculture. Castine: Adam Gallery. Cushing: Heartfelt Farm Dedham: Northern Maine Construction. Deer Isle: Beech Hill Woodworks, Dan Foss Construction LLC, Darwin K. Davidson Photography, Nervous Nellies Jams & Jellies, Turtle Gallery. Dixmont: Peacemeal Farm, Winterport Remodeling & Siding. Dover-Foxcroft: Ripley Farm. East Boothbay: Nathaniel S. Wilson Sailmaker Inc. Edgecomb: Andy Abello at Wind Ridge Farm Woodworking. Ellsworth: 86 This! Ellsworth Farmers’ Market, Emmaus Homeless Shelter, EverGreen Home Solution, Hansen Counseling, Roy, Beardsley, Williams & Granger, The Sand Castle, Tom’s Terrific Tattoos. Franklin: Maine Coast Sea Vegetables. Freedom: Village Farm. Gouldsboro: Darthia Farm. Hampden: Antiquity Tiles, Lippincott Books. Hancock: Dennis J. King Masonry, Gull Rock Pottery. Harborside: A Revolutionary Press. Hulls Cove: Davistown Museum & Maine Artists Guild. Islesboro: The Island Market, Robert Clayton Builder. Jackson, NH: Monolithic Building Services. Lamoine: Affordable Acadia.com, Eastern Building Performance. Liberty: Liberty Graphics, ReVision Energy LLC. Lincolnville: Maine Photo Alliance, Open Communication, Sleepy Hollow Rag Rugs, Tuckerbrook Conservation LLC. Lubec: Cobscook Bay Music. Milbridge: Striper Bait. Minneapolis, MN: Chateau Mer. Monhegan Island: Storm Lobster Corp. Monroe: Artisan Builders, Whitman Graphics & Sign Design. Mount Desert: Beech Hill Farm, Deep Green Aquamarine, Mountain Sea Properties, Sweet Timber Frames. New Harbor: Hardy Boat Cruises. Newport: Parker Family Farm. Northport: Holland & Foley Architecture. Old Town: Sunkhaze Blueberry Farm. Penobscot: Birch Moon Midwifery, Morse Cove Marine, Tree Feller. Pittsfield: Snakeroot Farm. Rockland: Bufflehead Sailing Charters, Gemini Marine Canvas, Lois Ann Studios, The Strand Theatre. Rockport: All Creatures Veterinary Hospital, Inc., Avena Botanicals, Harvest Moon Boat Trips, Rockport Marine. Round Pond: Bull’s Point Lobster Company Inc. Sargentville: El El Frijoles. Searsport: Safe Harbor Massage, Sundog Solar Store. Sedgwick: Parker’s Applied Designs, Prints and Frames. Sidney: Kennebec Cheesery At Koons Farm. Skowhegan: Grassland Organic Farm. South China: Two Loons Farms. Southwest Harbor: Oak Hill Marine Design, Richard Bradford Builder Inc.. Steuben: Ray Carbone Sculpture & Woodworking. Stockton Springs: Red’s Automotive, The Pottery, Art & Writing Studio. Stonington: Geoffery Warner Studio & Gallery. Sullivan: Schoodic Animal Hospital. Sunset: Maine Camp Outfitters. Surry: Blue Moon Images Gallery, VKP Pottery Studio. Tenants Harbor: Kevin Solsten Cabinetry, Turkey Cove Auto Repair. Thomaston: Seal Harbor Construction. Troy: Coastal K9 Consulting, LLC Troy: Greg Rossel Boat Carpentry. Union: Marine Models, Shep’s Imports, Union Stone. Unity: Unity College’s Centre for the Performing Arts. Verona: Downeast Community Acupuncture, Island Flowers. Vinalhaven: Island Spirit, Tidewater Motel & Gathering Place. Waldo: Rose Whitehead Culinary Landscaping, Rose Whitehead Fiber Fabrications. Waldoboro: G. K. VanDerwerker Studio - Hand Bookbinding. Warren: Sticks & Stones Landscape & Construction. Winterport: Fisher Farm. Winthrop: One Heart
ACTIVE BUSINESS MEMBERS:
PLEASE CONTACT SALT AIR :comments, corrections, questions, subscription info: [email protected]
Editor’s Note: If you are aware of any Supporters left off the list please contact WERU ASAP.
FULL YEAR UNDERWRITERS: A.E. Sampson & Son, Abbe Museum, Acadia Fireplaces, Acupuncture Clinic of Rhonda Feiman, Alamoosook Lakeside Inn, Apprentice Shop, Artisan Builders, Bangor Daily News, Bangor Savings Bank, Bar Harbor Bank & Trust, Bay Chamber
Concerts, Belfast Coop, Belfast Framer, Birch Moon Midwifery, Blue Hill Coop, Bob Spencer Builders & Properties, BookStacks, Brooklin Inn, Bucksport Enterprise, Center Theatre, Cleonice Mediterranean Bistro, College of the Atlantic, Don Foshay Dscount Tire, Downeast AIDS Network(DEAN), Easterly Wine, El El Frijoles, Evergreen Home Solutions, Fahringer’s Framing, Fiddler’s Green Farm, Finelli’s, First Light Community Midwives, Flaming Fish Performance Models, Fresh Off The Farm, Gambell & Hunter Sailmakers, Geoffery Warner Studio & Gallery, Gulf of Maine Books, Harbor Square Gallery, Harry Brown’s Farm, Inner Tapestry Journal, Liberty Graphics, Liberty Healing Arts, Luna Midwifery, Mabel Wadsworth Women’s Health Ctr, Mac Revival, Maine Boats, Homes & Harbors, Maine Community Foundation, Maine Farmland Trust, Maine Initiatives, MMA Div of Continuing Ed, Maine Organic Farmers & Gardeners Association, Maine Share, Merrill’s Bookshop, Morning Glory Bakery, Morning Star Midwifery, New Surry Theatre, Open Communication, Orland House B& B, Peace & Justice Center, Penobscot Bay Press, Quantum Insulators, Reel Pizza, Revision Energy, River City Cinema, Rock City Coffee, Sara Sara’s Women’s Clothing, Smith & May Masonry, Sundog Solar Store, SVAHA LLC, The Free Press, The Good Table, The Grand, The Green Store, The Old Professors Bookstore, The Sunrise Guide, Thirteenth Moon Center, Two Loons Farm, US Bells, Window Panes, Windward Passage and Yo Mama’s House
SALT AIR
What’s the biggest WERU news item for 2012? It’s got to be finally obtaining our much-needed new FM transmitter. It was a huge amount of work, both in terms of fundraising and technical issues, and we did it thanks to a tremendous outpouring of listener support, both for the purchase of the new transmitter (200 donors) and for keeping everyday operations in tune (2,500 donors). (See cover story for more on the new transmitter.) Thank you everyone!
Another big “Thank You!” goes out to Sylvia Smith, our Database Manager since 2007 and a volunteer at the station for three years before that. Sylvia is leaving the staff of the station and will be greatly missed by everyone, as her database expertise and pledge drive work was essential to our success. Other staff members will work together to perform Sylvia’s former duties, including one part-time member of our staff becoming full-time (Denis Howard).
We’ve got some excellent volunteer programmers moving on who deserve our gratitude as well: Paul Conte (Paul’s Emporium), Quinn Mitchell (Quinntopia), and Wes Sterrs (Beastly Jams), three young guys who have finished school (the first college, the second two high school). Best of luck, gents! And we also welcome a few new
programmers: Pip (The Junk Drawer – indie rock Saturdays at 3 p.m.), and Holly McMartin (Sunday Morning Coffeehouse – folk Sundays at 6 a.m.).
In the past several months we have had some successful station events as well as outreach at other events. Our events were the Roy Zimmerman Concert (April in Bangor), Spring Fling Music Sale (April in Belfast during the Free Range Music Festival), WERU Birthday Party Open House (May at the radio station), Boat Talk Cruise (June out of Northeast Harbor), Theodore Treehouse Concert (June in Northeast Harbor) and American Folk Festival Live Broadcast (August in Bangor). We also had outreach tables at the North Atlantic Blues Festival (July in Rockland), KahBang Music Festival (August in Bangor), Common Ground Country Fair (September in Unity) and the Aurora Music Festival (September in Aurora). We very much appreciate all the people who participated and visited us, and all the volunteers who helped make this outreach possible!
This summer we heard from a number of listeners in Augusta and Bath-Brunswick that it seemed like ever since we turned on the new transmitter their radio reception has become full of static and weaker than other stations in the area. Unfortunately, there is nothing that we can do about this problem, as it actually has nothing to do with our transmitter. Around the same time as we were switching to the new transmitter two new radio stations came on line in Augusta (89.5) and Bath-Brunswick (89.7), part of The Presence Radio Network (which also has stations in Bangor and Portland). These stations are operating in accordance with their FCC licenses and are not interfering with our primary signal area, which under FCC regulation is protected from interference by other stations. Sadly, these listeners live outside our protected signal area and there is
nothing that the station can do about this situation, but there are things that listeners can do for better reception (see Page 6).
Financially the station is doing well. We are right on track to reach our $250,000 annual membership goal and as of October 22 we have $60,000 to go. So please get us to that goal by renewing your membership or becoming a new member (through the mail or during the pledge drive). Our next Funathon Pledge Drive will take place November 3 – 10. Thank you in advance for your support!
Federal funding for public broadcasting and media (including community radio) continues to be in jeopardy and targeted by some members of Congress and the Romney-Ryan presidential campaign. WERU receives 20% of its annual income through a Community Service Grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting so this is an issue that we are watching very closely. More information on this issue, including how you can get involved, is available at http://170millionamericans.org/ and http://www.freepress.net/.
We have news about our Board of Directors as well. In the past few months our Board added two new members: Jon VanAmringe of Lamoine, who is a financial consultant, and Sara Trunzo of Unity, who is the Food & Farm Project Coordinator at Unity College. Sara is also the co-host of Midcoast Currents (3rd Friday of each month at 10 a.m.). Welcome to both and thank you for joining in the work of the Board, the governing body responsible for determining the overall direction and insuring the overall well being of WERU.
Finally, we can’t say it enough but many thanks to everyone who makes WERU so great: individual and family members, business members, program underwriters, volunteers and listeners. You make it all happen!
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The Dang-it Bobbys --- Big Trouble The Birds of Chicago is a collective of musicians based around JT Nero and Allison Russell, who the Chicago Sun Times says “have emerged as two of the most compelling new voices in North American Roots music.” JT Nero is a distinctly American songwriter and is the front man for JT Nero and the Clouds. Russell is a multi-instrumentalist who writes gorgeous unpredictable songs and fronts Po’Girl. Often on tour together, they collaborated in 2011 on Mountains/Forests under JT’s name. The album was so well received that they have merged bands and now go under the name of Birds of Chicago. Listen to these 12 songs and you will become a fan, as I have.
The XX --- Coexist Pitchfork.com says the XX has “produced a record that fills a void most of us didn’t know existed.”
Several currents of music flowed into the work of this London band to create something that feels strangely new. Many of their songs are skeletal, with nothing more than guitar, bass and restrained percussion, creating music with a daring sense of space with minimal production.
Romy Croft and Oliver Sim share vocals, while the third member, Jamie XX produced these 11 songs for the Young Turks label. These soulful songs are about little things like a glance, a gesture or a murmured word. Listening to Coexist will prove to be a haunting and captivating experience.
The Be Good Tanyas --- A Collection This Vancouver based trio, Frazey Ford, Trish Klein and Sam Parton, have been playing together since 1999. Their music has a beautiful, soft and sweet warmth that has Michael Z. Jody saying that they “are about the finest all female group of all times, if you like folky, traditional, bluesy, bluegrassy and I-am-not-sure-whatsy kind of music.” These 16 songs on the Nettwerk label span the years 2000 to 2012, and include two new tracks. The band’s tight, effortless harmonies, understated arrangements and inventive musicianship is simply top notch.
Keller Williams & the Travelin’ McCoury Band --- Pick American Songwriter says, “You would think it’s difficult for an instrumentalist as talented as
Keller Williams to find musicians who are worthy of collaboration,” yet once again he has joined forces with an established band on this, his 18th studio album. On other discs he has worked with String Cheese Incident, The Keels and members of the Grateful Dead. This time he has
united with the Travelin’ McCoury band, made up of Rob McCoury on banjo, Ronnie McCoury on mandolin, Alan Bartram on bass and Jesse Carter on fiddle. These 12 songs, running a total of
49:11 minutes, prove that the sum is often greater than the parts, even when the parts are this talented. This is some great Bluegrass!
NEW MUSIC REVIEWS WERU’s Brother Al Gives His Favorite 5
Angus Stone --- Broken Brights Angus Stone, one half of the Australian brother and sister act Angus and Julia Stone, has released his 2nd solo project Broken Brights. The easy on the ears, laid back rhythms calls up Dire Straits and the distorted guitar solos evoke the best of early Neil Young and Crazy Horse. While delivering shared intimacies in a whisky drawl over mandolin and fiddles, Stone builds hypnotic momentum as each song progresses. The Line of Best Fit says “ Broken Brights is a collection of folk pop songs, honestly sung to produce a body of emotion that anyone in or out of love and desire will relate to.” Stone also produced these 13 tracks for Desert Harvest Records.
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DEC . 1ST LIVE RADIO AUCTION CATALOGWoodenBoat School, Brooklin, ME. Approaching
its 33rd year, offers dozens of class-es designed for beginning, interme-diate, or experienced woodworkers with expert teachers of seaman-ship, boat-building, and wood-working and related crafts during the 2013 summer session. Classes are small and intimate, allowing each student the opportunity for personalized attention from the instructor. There’s even a family week for intergenerational sharing. WoodenBoat school offers one cer-tificate good for one course. Value: $750. www.thewoodenboat-school.com
Rock the Path, Camden. A holis-tic retreat and educational center offering experiential programs and enlightening experiences to help reduce stress, spur creativity, heal, access guidance, achieve goals, ex-plore consciousness, and enhance and improve lives of participants and communities. Offering a Silent Weekend retreat workshop from January 18 to 20, 2013. Includes accommodations, gourmet meals, and all course materials and activ-ities. Also includes personalized Hemi-Sync Sessions, meditative exercises that involve listening to the quiet, all-powerful voice with-in while giving our body, mind and spirit a soothing and healing retreat. Value: $495. Note: Option to bring a friend at 50% the tuition rate (increasing the value of the auction item to $742.50.) www.rockthepath.org
Downeast Family YMCA, Ellsworth. Offering fitness rooms, a swimming pool and
gym as well as fifty hours of free programming each week. Gift cer-tificate for one adult annual mem-bership. Begin use by 6/15/13. Val-ue: $480. www.defymca.com.
Lynn Karlin Photography, Belfast, will provide a 2-hour gar-den photography lesson valued at $400. www.lynnkarlinphoto.com
Maine Fiddle Camp, Mont-ville offers a campership for a week-long session from
Sunday, June 16 – Friday, June 21, 2013. It offers a beautiful rustic lakeside camp for all ages and abili-ties to learn and share Maine dance music. Daily classes and workshops are offered in fiddle and other in-struments, including piano, accor-dion, flutes and whistles. There are also performances by Maine and Canadian musicians, jams, singing, dancing and swimming. Reserva-tion must be made by June 1, 2013. Value: $400. www.mainefiddle.org
Frederica Marshall, Mas-ter Brush Painter, artist,
teacher and researcher who lived and studied in Japan for 28 years and currently resides in Deer Isle, is providing a 3 day Japanese Su-mi-E workshop including all art materials. Value: $350. www.fredericamarshall.com
The Green Store, Belfast, a gen-eral store for the 21st Century with environmentally safe, energy effi-cient products at affordable pric-es, is donating a Sun-Mar Garden Composter. Value: $350. www.greenstore.com
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle. Provides workshops led by prominent
New England craftmakers and vi-sual artists since 1982. Offers an intensive fall session for Maine residents of all levels on Columbus Day Weekend, 2013. Value: $330. www.haystack-mtn.org Darwin K. Davidson. Join your host of Bronzewound on a 5 hour boat trip in the Deer Isle Vicinity for up to 7 people. Swimming in a quarry or out to Isle au Haut for a hike if desired. June – September. Value: $300. www.darwinda-vidson.com
Down East Nature Tours, Bar Harbor, offers year round birding tours throughout Maine and the Down East coast focusing on MDI. A gift certificate for one 4 hour bird-watching/nature tour for 2 people. Value: $200. www.downeast-naturetours.com.
Miss Nina Coast to Islands Sailing Charters, where adven-ture is just a sail away, provides a 3-hour dinner sail for 2 from Bel-fast aboard the 60 foot Miss Nina wooden pilot house ketch. 3 course dinner. Will accommodate special diets. The pilot house is full size and is above deck level. 24-hour reser-vation is required from Memorial Day to October 10, 2013. Value: $200. www.sailingmissnina.com
The Lester Gallery LLC, Deer Isle, a well known Maine Land-scape Fine Art Photographer, offers a 14” x 16” original photograph of the Maine Landscape by Terrell S. Lester. Value: $175. www.the-lestergalleryllc.com.
Waldo County YMCA, Belfast, has programs and activities for peo-ple of all ages and abilities. General group specialty fitness classes are available as well as a wide selection of youth and adult sports programs. The facility includes a pool com-plex, and indoor walk/jog track, air-conditioned fitness center and
wellness/aerobic classroom. They are providing a three month adult membership. Value: $171 www.waldocountyymca.org
Creature Quarters Guest House and Dog Camp, Brook-lin. Creature Camp/Barnside of-fers professional services tailored to meet the needs of your pet. The Camp includes a 2 story, 3 bed-room farmhouse, and an attached finished barn, which opens into 3 fenced areas. Creature Camp pro-vides a safe home away from home for your dog with no kennels or cages. They provide 2 nights lodg-ing for up to 2 humans and 2 dogs from April through October. Value: $170. www.creaturecampo-line.com
Center Harbor Sails in Brook-lin is offering a large sea tote bag crafted by Sea Bags of Portland of recycled sails. Big enough for lots of gear. Perfect for sailor or landlub-ber. Value: $150. www.center-harborsails.com
Black Bear Inn Conference Center & Suites in Orono, an award-winning boutique style hotel featuring a complimentary wine and cheese reception and deluxe continental breakfast, is a non-smoking hotel minutes from the University of Maine. They of-fer an overnight stay, $130 value. Available Sunday to Thursday only with reservations prior to arrival. www.blackbearinnorono.com Diver Ed, Bar Harbor, donates a certificate for a 2 hour scenic dive-in theater for 2 adults and 2 kids. Take a journey to the bottom of the sea without ever getting wet when you dive into Maine’s only underwater sightseeing trip. (Valid June-October, 2013) Value: $130. www.divered.com.
Don Foshays Discount Tire and Alignment, in Belfast has a gift certificate for a 4-wheel align-ment, 4 tire rotation and balance, and 4 tire nitrogen fill. Value: $130. www.donfoshays.com
Country Inn at Camden, Rock-port. Open year ‘round. Only min-utes from beautiful Camden and Rockport Harbors and a myriad of coastal attractions. Gift certificate for one night stay in the Luxury Suite until May 20th 2013. Value: $119.00 www.countryinnma-ine.com.
The Fiddlehead Restaurant, downtown Bangor, uses only the most quality ingredients, bringing a little extra finesse to comfort-style dishes, interpreted from cuisine ranging from the Far East to Down East. Their motto is Eat local, eat
inexpensively, eat well. Gift certif-icate. Value: $100. www.thefid-dleheadrestaurant.com
Havana Restaurant, Bar Har-bor. American fine dining with a Latin flair. A great atmosphere, extensive wine list, knowledgeable staff and sophisticated menu. Sea-food, vegetarian and meat dishes are flavored with intelligence and respect and change weekly, some-times daily. Havana is located in downtown Bar Harbor, just a short stroll up Main Street. Gift certif-icate: $100 value. May through October; Open 3 days a week, No-vember and December. www.ha-vanamaine.com
Holbrook Williams Garden Services, Brooklin, will provide three to four hours of garden ser-vices, using hand tools with you in your garden on the Blue Hill Pen-insula: Spring prep., transplanting, improve garden beds, etc. some-time during the 2013 growing sea-son. Value: $100.
Jay Peterson Signs, Sedgwick. Rhythm Ranch host, sign painter and sign carver Jay Peterson of-fers a $100 gift certificate toward a hand painted driveway sign. www.jaypetersonsigns.com
Paradise Tattoo, Blue Hill. Free lance artist, professional tattooist – also WERU programmer, Corey Paradise, provides work up to 1 hour. Must be at least 18 years old. Gift certificate. http://coreypar-adisetattoo.blogspot.com Val-ue: $100.
Whale’s Rib Tavern, Deer Isle, offers a dinner for two. Does not include beverages, tax or 20% gratuity. Open from mid-May to mid-October. Value: $100. www.pilgrimsinn.com/dining
Bay Chamber Concerts, Cam-den Opera House, is providing two tickets to America’s premiere post-classical quartet in a program entitled Present Beauty featuring The Hours by Philip Glass on Sat-urday, February 2, 2013. Value: $90. www.baychambercon-certs.org
Northern Bay Handspun, Pe-nobscot, custom hand spinning, hand-dyed yarns of many fibers (cashmere, silk, bison, alpaca, and more), provide a $90 gift certifi-cate toward hand-dyed exotic yarn of your choice. Use by end of 2013. www.northernbayhandspun.etsy.com
Island Fishing Gear and Auto Parts, Stonington, which has com-mercial fishing, lobstering and clamming gear, plus auto parts,
is providing a Grundens, Brigg 38 Anorak Pullover, Rain Jacket, Foul Weather Gear. Not returnable. $80.00 value.
SaraSara’s, Blue Hill, Castine & Gardiner. Great clothes and jewelry from many local artisans and man-ufacturers, US made clothes, fair trade products, jewelry. They are providing a gift certificate for any SaraSara’s shop. Value: $75. www.sarasaras.com
Blue Hill Wine Shop has terrif-ic wine at compelling prices – also coffee, tea, tobacco, seasonal food items. Plenty of advice and good cheer. Gift certificate redeemable for one supremely elegant bottle of white burgundy and one bottle of Chateauneuf du Pape worthy of your holiday feasting, chosen by Max himself. Value: $70. www.bluehillwineshop.com
Camden Snow Bowl, a commu-nity owned ski and recreation area that offers alpine and snowboard-ing skiers and riders an incredible view of the Atlantic Ocean. In ad-dition, there are many other win-ter activities available at the Snow Bowl including snow tubing slope and a 400’ toboggan chute. They offer 2 complimentary anytime lift tickets. Expiration is April, 2013. Total value: $70. www.camden-snowbowl.com
Yo Mamma’s Home, Belfast. Fun, Funky, Functional Funda-mentals for everyone! Pick up bag with beautiful decorated bamboo placemats and 2 whimsical light-switch plates. Value $ 65.00. www.yomammashome.com Blue Hill Inn. A lovely, historic inn in the heart of Blue Hill Vil-lage with the best blueberry pan-cakes and scones ever using local ingredients. Offering breakfast for 4 people, includes tax and break-fast chocolates, but not mimosas or gratuity. Value: $64. www.blue-hillinn.com
Colonial Theatre, Belfast, offers 8 movie tickets to the Colonial The-atre. Value: $64.00 www.colo-nialtheatre.com Blue Hill YMCA, a branch of the Downeast Family YMCA, offers people of the community a place to exercise. Cardio machines, univer-sal weight machine, free weights, medicine balls, stability balls, and etcetera, to help you achieve your fitness goals. They also offer per-sonal training and fitness classes. Provides a 2 month pass for use of gym facilities. Expires February 28, 2013. Value: $60. www.defym-ca.org
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Reel Pizza, Bar Harbor, an un-commonly good cinema mixing food and community for 17 years, offers 1 big ticket for 10 movies. Value: $55. www.reelpizza.netAarhus Gallery, pronounced “Ar-HOOSE,” (as in “moose”), in Bel-fast, creates a space where lovers of community, form, and design as well as admirers of contemporary and unique art feel welcome. Gift certificate: $50. www.aarhusgal-lery.com
Borealis Press, Blue Hill, great cards and graphics, as green as it gets, is donating 4 - $50 gift cer-tificates each (total value: $200). www.borealispress.net Belfast Co-op, Belfast. A commu-nity-owned health food store and deli cafe in downtown Belfast since 1976 offering whole natural foods and other goods and provisions with a wide variety of products that are organically produced and local-ly grown whenever possible. Gift Certificate: $50 value. www.bel-fast.coop
Carding Brook Farm, Brooklin. This certified organic farm, which includes maple sugaring and woods work with horses, provides a gift certificate for their fresh farm or-ganic produce at their farm stand, the Brooklin Farmers’ Market or by appointment. Gift Certificate: $50 value.
Clay Forms Pottery, Sedgwick, is contributing a pottery gift cer-tificate for Melody Lewis-Kane handmade porcelain, hand built and wheel thrown tableware, tea-pots, urns and vessels. Value: $50. www.clayformspottery.com
Coyote Moon, Belfast. The bou-tique that speaks to the heart, of-fering comfortable and elegant clothing, playful and sophisticated jewelry, whimsical and practical accessories. Gift Certificate. Value: $50. www.coyotemoonmaine.com
Deer Isle Hostel, Deer Isle. An off the grid hostel with communal dinners each evening and organic gardens, a canoe and kayak launch and hiking trails provides one lodg-ing for two people including a com-munal dinner. Expiration: Septem-ber 30, 2013. Value: $50. www.deerislehostel.com
Ellsworth Farmer’s Market. Enjoy local vegetables, food, and art at the Ellsworth Farmers Market. Organic vegetables, goat cheese, baked goods, prepared foods, jew-elry, hand knits, and much more. Offers a gift certificate good for the 2013 season until October 31, 2013. Value: $50. www.ellsworth-farmersmarket.com
Fahringer’s Framing Gallery, Ellsworth. Features expert custom framing and design consultation as well as printing, and photo & art restoration services. Gift certificate (not redeemable for cash). Value: $50. www.fahringersframing-
gallery.com
Fiddlehead Artisan Supply, a sewing, quilting and craft supply store in Belfast, offers a Gift Cer-tificate value: $40. www.fiddle-headartisansupply.com
5 Star Nursery, Brooklin, stocks hand-grafted, certified organic fruit trees, most of heirloom stock, and fruit, vegetables and seedlings in season. Donates one organic heir-loom apple tree. Gift certificate. $50 value.
George Fowler, Brooklin, host of New Potatoes and long-time contradance fiddler, offers a one hour fiddle lesson for an adult in his studio in Brooklin and will send you home with a CD of contradance music by George or the Montville Project. Gift Certificate. Value: $50. myspace.com/gwfowler.
Handworks Gallery, Blue Hill. For more than 30 years Hand-works in Blue Hill sells fiber arts, book arts, floor cloths, glass, jew-elry, painting, sculpture, pottery and more. Gift certificate: $50 val-ue. Open May through December. www.handworksgallery.org.
Mainescape, Blue Hill. Full ser-vice nursery and landscaping, with produce from local farms, garden supplies, and great community spirit. Gift certificate. Value $50. www.mainescape.com
Nocturnem Draft Haus, Ban-gor, serves their guests with the finest beers from Maine, the US and abroad paired with some arti-san-style, simply prepared locally sourced food. Offering a combi-nation of two $25 gift certificates. Value $50. www.nocturnem-drafthaus.com. The North Atlantic Blues Fes-tival is an annual two-day blues music festival featuring national blues performers and considered one of the most prestigious on the East Coast. The festival is held at the Public Landing in Rockland, Maine, overlooking the picturesque Rockland Harbor. Some of the top names in blues music have been featured at this prestigious East Coast festival. They provide 2 sin-gle day passes for July 13-14, 2013. Value: Advanced price is $50 and at the gate price is $70 for 2 tickets. www.northatlanticbluesfesti-val.com
Out of the Woods in Belfast, features quality wooden gifts, fur-niture, housewares and children games from Maine, as well as an entire collection of unique, outdoor living products. Gift Certificate. Value: $50. www.kilndry.com
Pro Libris Bookshop, Bangor with over 30,000 used books, in dozens of categories, serving Great-er Bangor and beyond since 1980. 2 $25 gift certificates combined. Val-ue $50. On facebook.
Rooster Brother, a family busi-
ness in downtown Ellsworth, pro-vides good cooks with good tools and has a food lover’s emporium with wine, cheese, bakery, coffee and specialty foods. $50 gift certifi-cate. www.roosterbrother.com
Turtle Gallery, for 30 years has provided fine art and contempo-rary craft on Deer Isle. The have over 100 award winning artists and craftsmen represented. Open from Memorial Day to Columbus Day. $50 gift certificate. www.turtle-gallery.com
Belfast Dance Studio, dedicated to providing space where everyone can explore the world of move-ment, donates one month Hip Hop Fusion class with Shana Bloom-stein on Mondays for either 7 to 9 year olds - from 3:45 to 4:30pm or ages 10 to 13 from 4:30 to 5:15pm to be used in the Winter of 2013. Value: $32. And for one or two parents or guardians, they donate a sauna pass valued at $16. Com-bined value: $48. www.belfast-dancestudio.com
Lucy’s Granola, East Blue Hill. Lucy’s Granola, a family enterprise, has a Gift certificate for 6 bags: orig-inal –extra seedy- or gluten-free granolas made of whole grains and unprocessed ingredients with lo-cal ingredients wherever possible. Value: $47. www.lucysgranola.com.
The Strand Theatre in Rockland has a high definition live broadcast of the London National Theatre’s production of The Magistrate starring John Lithgow on Thurs-day, January 17, 2013. Value: $46 www.rocklandstrand.com
Blossom Studio & Gallery, Brooklin. A shop of fine crafts and apparel, with lamp-work glass by Sihaya Hopkins, donates a gift certificate to be used online or in the shop. Value: $45. www.blos-somstudiobeads.com.
Camden Opera House, Camden, is furnishing two tickets for the In-die Artist Showcase: Real Music for Real Music Lovers with Baraby Bright, Connor Garvey and Chris Ross –all acclaimed artists with new albums to be held on Thurs-day, February 14, 2013 at 7:30 pm. Value: $40.00. www.camde-noperahouse.com
Darwin K. Davidson Photog-raphy, Deer Isle. Host on WERU’s Bronzewound. Provides an 11 by 14 photo of a celebrated bluegrass musician (shown on his website). Value: $40. www.darwindavid-son.com
Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival, Blue Hill. One of the best chamber music schools in the world, featuring virtuoso young musicians excited about making fine music together. Offer 4 sepa-rate gift certificates worth $40 each toward the Kneisel Hall Young Art-ist Concerts in the 2013 Summer Season. Total Value: $160. www.
kneisel.org
Mad Mama’s Vintage, Brooklin, has vintage clothes, décor, kitsch, and collectible jewelry. Offers a gift certificate for items in the shop or online. Shop closed January through May. Value: $40. www.twirlswithpearls.etsy.com
Red’s Automotive Service, Stockton Springs, offers an oil change, check of all fluids and an inspection. Gift certificate. Value: $40.
Sow’s Ear Winery, Brooksville providing dry table wines from the unsprayed fruits of apples, blueber-ries and rhubarb, contributes one bottle of sparkling cider and one of sparkling rhubarb. Value: $40. [email protected]
Maine Discovery Museum, downtown Bangor, is the largest children’s museum north of Bos-ton with 3 floors of too much fun. 2 single admission passes. And, Gi-acomo’s, also in downtown Bangor, known for its paninis, pizza and espresso, has a $20 gift card. To-tal value for both items: $35. www.mainediscoverymuseum.org and www.giacomosbangor.com
A+B Naturals, Bar Harbor. A+B Naturals is Bar Harbor’s premier natural food store, with a strong commitment to local producers. Shop for your local organic pro-duce, milk, eggs and locally pro-duced groceries of all kinds. Gift certificate to be used by end of 2013. Value: $30. www.aandb-naturals.com.
Bangkok Restaurant, Ellsworth. Serves fine Thai cuisine since 1989 (dine in or take out). 2 gift certifi-cates: $30 each. (Total value: $60)
Barncastle, Blue Hill. A hotel, restaurant, and pub. Gift card. Val-ue $30. www.barn-castle.com
Belfast Framer and Gallery, Belfast, offers a gift certificate. Value: $30.00 www.thebelfast-framer.com
Betsy’s Sunflower, Inc., Brook-lin. A serendipitous shop full of beautiful housewares, garden gear, boating comforts, necessities and paper goods; fun things for every-one. Mail orders accepted. Closed January 15 to April 1. Gift certifi-cate. Value: $30. www.betsysun-flower.com.
Bookstacks, Bucksport an inde-pendent bookstore boasting over 5,000 new book titles, more than 1500 periodicals and an assortment of greeting cards and gifts provides a $30 gift certificate. Value: $30. www.bookstacksmaine.com.
The Good Table. Belfast. A fine selection of cookware, table linens, cookbooks, kitchen gadgets and more. Gift certificate: $30 value. www.thegoodtable.net
Maine Grind, Ellsworth, a neigh-borhood café and coffee lounge, has a certificate for a framed post-er of Downeast Maine. Value: $30. www.mainegrind.com
The Mill Stream Deli, Bak-ery and Barbeque is Blue Hill’s breakfast and lunch spot. Local love -be a part of it! Gift certificate. Value: $30
Morning Glory Bakery, Bar Harbor, gives a gift certificate. Real food from the heart of Bar Harbor every day - open from 7 am to 8 pm. Value: $30. www.morningglo-rybakery.com.
Noah Publications, Brooklin. America’s foremost photogra-pher of wooden boats, Benjamin Mendlowitz. Great publications, including calendars, notecards, screensavers, and prints featuring beautiful images. Gift certificate for NOAH Publications merchandise. Value: $30 www.noahpublica-tions.com.
Pyramid Studios, Ellsworth. Creative jewelry design by gold-smiths and brothers Dave and Don Herrington who specialize in cus-tom jewelry solutions of heirloom quality with designs that fit your lifestyle. 2 gift certificates: $30 each. (Total value: $60) Use by 12/4/13 www.pyramid.ws
Window Panes, Bar Harbor. A shop filled with fun and functional items for the home, offers 2 gift cer-tificates for $30 each (Total value: $60) to be used by December 2013. www.windowpanesmdi.com.
Bar Harbor Bank & Trust, Deer Isle is providing a $25 VISA gift card. Expiration: February 1, 2003. www.BHBT.com
Cleonice Bistro, Ellsworth. Pro-viding meals with local ingredients with international flavors seven days a week. Gift certificate. Value: $25. www.cleonice.com
44 North Coffee, Deer Isle. A small-batch organic and fair trade coffee roaster open year-round, offers two 12 ounce bags of coffee. Value: $22. www.44northcof-fee.com
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about the Blues. I invited him to the station to check out the music library. He did. We met and we’ve been programming together ever since.”
The commute:When Paula started the show she was living in Searsmont
and teaching in Belfast. The commute from Searsmont to Blue Hill Falls (the old address of WERU in a henhouse) was about an hour one way.
“Later I moved to Deer Isle which I thought would be great because it was so much closer to Blue Hill. Then the radio station moved to East Orland, which made my commute about 45 minutes.” Six years ago Paula started teaching in Isle au Haut and moved there. Then her Monday commute to the radio station in East Orland became a little more challenging:
“Now I take a 40 minute mail boat ride, jump in my mainland car and drive almost an hour to the station. I spend the night with a friend in East Orland and drive to Stonington to catch the 7 am boat so I can get to work before 8am. Actually the commuting has been surprisingly smooth over the past 6 years. I’ve had a few times when I’ve hitched a ride with a fisherman for a faster commute. I missed the 7am boat once by about 1 minute. Come to find out, the captain’s watch was fast. I had to hitch a ride with a caretaker and I was 1 1/2 hours late for work. Luckily I had an assistant who took over for me. Winter storms make me crazy. I won’t come if a big one is predicted. In six years, the mailboat has never been cancelled on a Monday night or a Tuesday morning . . . “My Ol’ Buddy” has been known to row his peapod to Stonington to ride with me to the station in the car.”
How has blues music changed over the years?“I don’t necessarily think that the music is better, but
the sound is sharper and the recordings are more polished and professionally produced. Young, new artists are still covering Robert Johnson songs and Willie Dixon songs. I
think the blues is the blues. Blues artists sing about love and trouble and sometimes political strife like they always have . . . I believe that if someone wants to be successful at playing the blues they have to put their heart and soul into it. They have to be creative and not just a copycat. They have to do more than just play the high notes on the guitar. Knowing the technical side of playing the instrument is fine but it’s not the blues without the “feeling.”
“Twenty years of listening to, researching and studying one genre of music is an amazing eye opener. I believe my taste has become more discerning because I have allowed myself the privilege of listening to all styles of blues and am able to select music from a tremendous variety of styles within the genre. The extensive CD library at the radio station along with the endless sources of music on the internet have afforded me amazing access to this music. I think if you have the opportunity to listen often and you let yourself search you can find what you like. I will admit I often judge a CD by it’s cover and I’m a bit of a blues snob. I trust my instinct and my feeling for the music. I can usually tell after listening to the first 5-10 notes of a song if I’ll play it on my show.”
What’s it been like being a volunteer programmer at the station?
“I guess in 20 years of sitting in the chair at the station anything that can go wrong will and has. I’ve gone off the air a few times, I’ve miscued hundreds of songs, I’ve mispronounced names, I’ve had great interviews and not so great interviews, I’ve raised over a thousand dollars in an hour on one fund raiser and made less than $200 on another. I’ve been praised, adored, flirted with, and reviled by phone. I’ve met many wonderful blues performers, fans, promoters of the music and hard working volunteers. I’ve
loved and lost two darling radio friends Dave Piszcz and Royce Dixon.”
Special Connections…“I was in a near fatal car crash in 2006 which put me out
of circulation for 6 months. WERU found people to cover my show and kept the time slot open for Blues the Healer until I came back. Many radio friends visited and sat with me while I healed. I’ve always said I’ll do this show as long as I’m allowed and as long as I’m still having fun. WERU still allows me air time and I’m still having fun. Thank you.
By the way, Blues is the Healer, it’s good for what ails ya! It’s been very good for what ails me.”
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WERU’s New Autumn Featured ArtistsBy Denis Howard, WERU Music and Underwriting Director
Over the last fifteen years the music industry’s way of conducting business has had to evolve dramatically due to the creation of “burning” compact discs at home, digital sound files, illegal file-sharing websites, portable music players, online stores, and even websites that stream and store seemingly any song ever produced. If one looks at the advertising in magazines or on websites and televisions it might seem that nobody purchases physical music any longer. In fact that is not true. Vinyl album sales have been increasing for a few years now while cassettes are once again being produced by independent artists and small record labels. CDs recently experienced a slight surge in sales (perhaps due to Adele’s 21 blockbuster of an album and the desire of commercial country music fans to own an actual product. During the late summer and early fall the music industry releases many of its strongest contenders (both established acts and promising new faces) as it plans for an exciting and profitable gift-giving holiday season.
In my fourteen years spent at WERU (both as a volunteer and as a member of the paid staff) I have never seen as much anticipation and excitement for a new album as I have for the Avett Brothers’ recent release The Carpenter. As of this writing it is the # 1 album on WERU’s Americana and AAA (adult album alternative) airplay charts. The two actual brothers in this North Carolina rock band (Scott & Seth Avett) recorded their sixth full-length album with famed producer and owner of American
Recordings Rick Rubin. After twelve years operating as a group they have accumulated a host of honors including the 2007 Americana Music Association Duo / Group of the Year and New / Emerging Artist of the Year awards as well as the 2009 “Artist To Watch” in Rolling Stone magazine. Though they have always been under the radar of mainstream media this fall finds the Avett Brothers’ music featured in commercials for Gap.
Another album released on September 11th with the Avett Brothers’ record is Bob Dylan’s Tempest, his thirty-fifth studio recording. This record has rapidly
become a favorite of WERU’s on-air corps of volunteer programmers and not just because of Highway 61 (a weekly hour of Bob Dylan music, hosted by “Doc” Dufour and airing each Friday from 9 - 10 AM). For over half a century this singer / songwriter and folk / rock musician has redefined what it means to be a Sixties icon, a touring superstar, and a poet. It is not hyperbole to consider how unique this new album is -- how many seventy-one year olds who have been making music since the 1960s continue to release universally acclaimed new works and actually tour behind the material as well? Are you planning on purchasing this new album to add to YOUR Bob Dylan collection?
Other new albums receiving heavy airplay on WERU this fall include a roots duo known as the Honey Dewdrops. This Virginia-based act at first appeared to be destined for the bluegrass program (Bronzewound, airing every Thursday evening from 8 - 10 PM) but quickly was recognized for its blend of traditional
and contemporary folk music. Their album Silver Lining was released a few months back but continues to be featured quite frequently on WERU. It has been five years since Lucy Kaplansky’s last solo album. She just released Reunion in late September and it has already been heard many times on Community Radio’s airwaves. Lucy recently lost her mother (after her father’s death six years ago) and many of the songs reflect on that loss. Rickie Lee Jones also has released a brand-new album, The Devil You Know. The songs are all cover versions and were produced
by fellow musician Ben Harper. Tune in to hear!
Electronic dance music (or EDM) has experienced a renaissance in mainstream popularity this year and WERU continues to feature this genre of music as well. Chicago production duo Supreme Cuts’ album Whispers In The Dark has been played on those programs while Malian actress /musician (and current French resident) Fatoumata Diawara currently is receiving much airplay on WERU’s world music programs (from her album Fatou) one year after being released. The jazz charts at WERU are topped by drummer Reggie Quinerly and his album Music Inspired By Freedmantown. Reggie hails from Houston, Texas and this album revolves around the historic neighborhood located in the Fourth Ward of that metropolitan area.
WERU offers a very diverse collection of music every day and you are invited to partake at your leisure. Sometimes the most rewarding phone call a DJ receives is the one from a listener who is very curious about the music being played. Even with all of the current online options for listening to music, radio continues to be the primary place where people hear new music for the very first time. During this final quarter of 2012 the major record companies, independent labels, promoters, and individual musicians are hoping that you hear something you like on WERU and that you purchase it for yourself or someone you love. Local favorites Toughcats just released their third album, Woodenball, to locally owned record stores and WERU one month before it is available for digital sales. If you do plan on purchasing music during the next few months please do consider purchasing your music from those local record stores -- the music industry, your fellow Mainers, and many of the musicians would be very grateful! WERU’s DJ squad is supposed to keep themselves educated about new releases and are given shelves of new CDs weekly to add to their playlists. Listen in today via our terrestrial signal or online (via www.weru.org) from anywhere in the world and hear the best new music available on WERU!
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WERU is anything but bland. It is the place where volunteer programmers do their best to present music that is expressive, vibrant, rhythmic, and alternative. And you could be one of them! At WERU there are no Pied Mainstream Pipers leading listeners into the musical cave of the same ol’ same ol’ mediocrity. We are unique
because WERU’s diverse community has kept the station on course for 24 years to “serve the needs of those not fully served by other broadcast media” meaning that we respect individuality and diversity. We celebrate you!
As a volunteer powered community radio station our needs are varied. We depend on a large number of
listeners also actively participating as volunteers to keep going forward (¡Adelante!) . Volunteers act as public affairs producers, committee members, pledge drive phone volunteers, CD library cataloguers, audio archive digitizers, and the list goes on.
And now, (drumroll please), you
can find out about a wide spectrum of volunteer opportunities by signing up for a Volunteer Orientation held on the 3rd Thursday of each month from 6 to 8 pm right here at the station in East Orland! If Interested, please contact Chris at 469-6600 or send an e-mail to [email protected].
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The MatrixMagnus Johnstone
R&B/SOULMama Popcorn
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FOLK
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Jim Bahoosh Chuck Markowitz
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Joneford Comedy Hour last Mon. of MonthJohn Greenman & Arthur Morison
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This Way Out The WERU News Report* RadioActive* Counterspin
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Democracy Now!
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Jazz Straight Ahead
Larry Stahlberg
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Cheryl Morin
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Sam West
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Kristie Billings Andy Buckley
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Paul Conte
BLUESBlues the Healer
Paula Greatorex& John Blaisdell
LATIN/ZYDECO/DELTA BLUES
A Southern WindRic Pomilia
REGGAEWERU
Drive ThruRoots Controller
BLUEGRASSBronzewound
Darwin Davidson, David Manski, Marilyn Ryan
ECLECTIC Night Fly
Sanguine Fromage
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Kevin Carman
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Sean Gambrel
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Howie Zowie
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Susana Diaz, Sara Elena Chiri, Luz Kogson, Jim Fisher, William Ryan,
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GRATEFUL DEADLATE NIGHT DEAD
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